Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Here's the Secrets by @PhilCooke The golden strategy of stacked “marginal gains” via @bigthink 8 Easy Ways to Regain Focus by @stopyourdrama Marlene Chism PODCAST: Juergen Resch with @jamesstrock Echoes of 1924?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 30, 2014

Many leaders go through their career (certainly once they get to a higher level) believing that their station or title in their company validates that their perspective is somehow best, or more insightful. I believe strongly that helping people defend themselves against an imperfect system and regaining their power is vital.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Learn about 3 lessons from the political realm that inform us on how leaders can successfully champion change initiatives in their organization. Your next promotion won’t happen until you “be the change” that those who have your career in their hands expect to see. Managing Through Career and Life Changes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I can’t tell you how many times a manager has come to me for advice after they’ve made a technically authentic, but clumsy move: Storming out of a staff meeting in anger. I once had a manager who would start each staff meeting telling us all about her boyfriend, Charlie, and his dog Guss. If Gus had worms, we knew it.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

Interestingly, Gallup found that the most important element is career wellbeing. Career Wellbeing: You Like What You Do Every Day. “ My job and my manage r are the two strongest links to net thriving.” Many find spending time with their manager to be the worst time of their day. Remove abusive managers.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Nowadays, people change their careers frequently for personal and professional growth and to earn more money, but the last thing you want to do is sacrifice a good situation for more money or less flexibility. If a company is not making net-zero efforts and it’s something you care about, it could be time to raise it with a manager. .

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Do everything you can to learn about the executive’s goals, competing priorities, decision-making styles, and political dynamics. I’ve been doing a lot of work recently helping managers hone their skills in this arena. Executives can often be hard to read, but there’s a lot going in their quick-thinking brains.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Office politics usually gets a bad rap and is often associated with toxic cultures that result in marginalized groups being frozen out. New research from King’s College London highlights how it doesn’t have to be that way, and there are approaches that can lead to a healthier form of office politics that is more inclusive.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 8, 2023

Office politics can be a fact of life in any organization, and it can be especially challenging for leaders who are trying to navigate complex interpersonal dynamics and conflicting agendas. Here are a few strategies that the best leaders use to navigate office politics: Lead by example: The best leaders lead by example.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Office politics can be a major source of stress and frustration. As an executive leadership coach, I have seen the negative impact of office politics on company culture. Completely eliminating office politics may be impossible. You encourage the cessation of office politics, gossiping, and talking behind each other’s back.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

While the emotional distress associated with gossip can be dealt with fairly easily, the political discord that can erupt in an organization can be nothing short of disastrous. Gossip destroys trust, undermines credibility, and is one of the greatest adversaries of a healthy corporate culture.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Looking the Part, Being the Part by @James_Albright 5 Things To Quit To Become More Successful by @JosephLalonde Identity Politics Comes for Tim Scott by @jamesstrock | Social Conservatives Join the Attack on One of Their Own. It Matters More Than You Think by @PhilCooke The Death of The Manager Role Is Predicted Yet Again.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. And that feeds our approach in society at large. It leads to short-term thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously. Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. link] Taariq Lewis Hi Mike: As always, a great blog. I will be curating again, soon.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In yesterday’s post , I shared eight things I know now, that I wish I had known when I had started my career. Being agile and ready to bend and adapt to changing circumstances is an absolutely vital skill set to develop if you want to have a career that’s as frustration free as possible. You don’t need to politic any further than that.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. My question is this: have you taken the time to do the necessary planning? You will face physical, mental, financial, relational, and resource challenges among others.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Organizations can no longer guarantee work and careers, even if they want to.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

As we rapidly approach Q4, it is my most sincere hope that you will take pause for a bit of reflective thinking – I would ask that you ponder the following question: “Am I so busy that I’ve lost the ability to be as productive as I need to be?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The arrogant CEO doesn’t value the input of line and staff management.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from HBR.org. Unfortunately, there are organizations that are toxic from the top down; where senior-most management pays lip service to the tenets of leadership, but acts in ways bordering on the malevolent. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For example, in “ Seven Ways to Sell Your Ideas to Management ,” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shares how to present your ideas in order to get them implemented – a skill you need to master if you want to be an influential leader in your company. Management Issues. Need advice on a management issue?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2019

Whether you are a self-starter ready to make a disruptive pivot in your business, a high-potential individual charting your career trajectory, a manager looking to instill innovative thinking amongst your team, or a leader facing industry changes that make for an uncertain future—you will be sure to benefit from this hour-long exclusive webinar.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

What we’re experiencing today is too much form over substance – leaders lacking in foundation, but replete with social/political savvy. In today’s post I’ll share 6 leadership characteristics that require zero talent or skill.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2010

In the competitive worlds of business and politics a reserved attitude of humility can often be misinterpreted as a sign of weakness. However if you’ve ever negotiated with a truly confident person who is authentically humble, you’ll find that their resolve is often much greater than the feigned confidence of the arrogant.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2024

These professional risk-takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. More specifically, his success in his military and corporate careers was predicated on the people who worked with him, and for him.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2012

lisapetrilli Get your copy now at thecharacterbasedleader.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble or iTunes

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Leadership Development Carnival is a monthly collection of insights from top thought leaders around the world, and this month’s edition features topics related to business, culture, communication, artificial intelligence, career development, team building, and leadership. Here’s how to lead the way in an AI-driven landscape.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. Part four will balance needs with compromises and float tangential opportunities to expand horizons and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘pink giraffe’ management candidate. The bar is set high.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The most productive leaders I know have the ability to be extremely nice, very civil and always polite while maintaining the ability to be direct, focused, and candid. Furthermore, it is quite possible to be nice without being wishy-washy or a doormat. It takes some work, but don't settle for anything less. Mark Oakes Good Post, Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything. The prior are often footnotes.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Priority number two is team building and talent management. Did you bestow the title upon yourself simply because you had the authority to do so, or are you the right person for the job? What does a CEO really do anyway?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. link] ATIG Dear Mike, "I've found that 90% of problems companies have on-line are created by management, not technology" David Segal Why not E-leader ( participative) for better decision making to do the right thing ? Identifying leaders?

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